Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping closed source pkgs (Was: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree)

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
070614 Steve Long wrote: why is ion3 gone again? That was good software, with total source availability. Licensing. Look in the archive for the gruesome details. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
attraction wb to relieve '-dev', as you describe. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
070607 Kumba wrote: what should we call it? Vote on this! If users have votes ... gentoo-politics ... that gets mine: let's keep it quite clear what it is. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Webb
070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug 154671 app-misc/gfontview If you want to remove this package, please provide a better explanation. right you are. The bug is invalid: he unmerged

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-19 Thread Philip Webb
their next joke with But seriously, folks ... (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE needs your help

2007-03-15 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How others handle bad behaviour on mailinglists

2007-03-09 Thread Philip Webb
070309 Stephen Bennett wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:41:57 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Always be parliamentary; never be personal; have a point to make; know when to stop. 'Parliamentary' means 'follow the rules for MPs in Ottawa or Westminster'. If you've seen what goes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: Various packages, see inside

2007-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
in GWN: please list things alphabetically ! ie app-emulation/tiger app-text/biblestudy ... www-servers/aolserver Thanks as always to the devs for their volunteer efforts. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23:59 UTC

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
doable, but it's a lot more work. All anyone needs to do is 'eix pkg-spec via clipboard'. I just checked the new 'app-editors/tea' that way. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, take your marks...get set...take stuff!

2006-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
them give reasons. Thanks as always for your volunteer labor. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: init.d problem

2006-07-05 Thread Philip Webb
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted 060705 When will it the new baselayout (1.12.0) be ready ? I've been using it since 060604 without any problems. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Webb
060618 Dan Meltzer wrote: On 6/18/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is something not quite right about 'testing/stable' as it exists now -- no, repeat no, criticism of hardworking developers implied -- : might it help everyone if instead we had 'testing/desktop/server' ? 'testing

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-18 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-18 Thread Philip Webb
060618 Roy Marples wrote: On Sunday 18 June 2006 17:12, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 18 June 2006 04:32, Philip Webb wrote: I suspect most users wb happy to see packages stabilised a bit sooner, even if they're only 95 % reliable (another smile). people are *not* happy when their machine

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Philip Webb
that little bit of bent metal ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
060506 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:48, Philip Webb wrote: I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ? Because 3.4 and 3.5 does _NOT_ mix together! That's not an explanation: it merely restates your assertion. Many packages have 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
. This is rubbish: I'm now using 3.5.2 have had no problems whatsoever; nor did I have problems earlier with 3.5.0 3.5.1 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
060505 Jakub Moc wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 060504 Chris Gianelloni wrote: If we followed others blindly, as so many users suggest, then we would have stabilized KDE 3.5 ages ago, and every single one of you KDE users would be complaining about how our QA sucks because KDE doesn't compile

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
3.5.1 ? I have been running a wide variety of KDE 3.5.1 pkgs without any problems before that ran KDE 3.5.0 successfully; I plan to get 3.5.2 soon. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
060404 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:09, Philip Webb wrote: KDE is now modular: is it possible to upgrade some modules, but not others ? Kdelibs would need to be stable, but must everything wait for stragglers ? If I have Kdelibs 3.5.2 , can I still run eg

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
with Gentoo's current criteria. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
. Thanks as always to the devs for their volunteer work. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Find apps not ported to modular X

2006-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
060202 Philip Webb wrote: Today's graph seems itself broken, as it goes up slightly at the R end. Perhaps you could add numbers down the R-hand side for easy reading ? Thanks for fixing it ! -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Find apps not ported to modular X

2006-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
for easy reading ? spectate -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
to something important, like the news GLEP ? spectate -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-dev] relocation.

2005-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
kill you with my brain) Does your brain really contain that many viruses ... ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC-3.4 will be marked stable in ~1 hour on x86

2005-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
is necessary, if indeed it is. As always, my thanks to those who do the volunteer work. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
051130 Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: As one of the masses, I am certainly disturbed at that implication. I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 - 3.x (now 3.3.6). This is the kind of issue on which I trust the devs to do sensible

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
mesure from french to english. 'custom-made' or perhaps 'home-brewed'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
051107 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 7 Nov 2005 15:12:20 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm serious -- Gentoo should try to follow international standards The format specified in GLEP 1 is an international standard. It's just not the same international standard that you're after. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: News Item File Format ... The news item will be named in the form ``-mm-dd-item-name.en.txt`` ... News Item Headers ... Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
(s) are satisfied this is bug-free: you can feel safe using it in your production system'. spectate -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
050906 Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:06, Philip Webb wrote: 050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key may break your system. How's about not warning if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
information leaving the final choice -- Gentoo-style -- upto him/her. Oh while we're on the subject, why is Joe a virtual, but not E3 ... ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

[gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals : virtual/dev-manager sys-fs/devfsd -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Philip Webb schrieb: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals : You are using the 2.4 subprofile of 2005.1. The 2.4 subdir is the place I found Devfs mentioned, but I don't seem to be using that subdir. I actually have /etc/make.profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Andrew Gaffney wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I actually have /etc/make.profile - /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 So when I enter 'emerge -Cp devfsd', why do I get : !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'sys-fs/devfsd' !!! This could be damaging to your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL doc [updated]

2005-07-13 Thread Philip Webb
050713 Chris White wrote: 050712 Philip Webb wrote: Someone has already pointed out that it's 'Structured', not 'Standard'. As ditto, it's still not corrected 050713 1132 EST. under '[code list] 1.4', why do we need a root password ? are you not setting this up as a user ? eg if I use MySQL

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL doc [updated]

2005-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
here. HTH : it's meant to be picky (smile). Your doc looks very helpful, but needs a bit of polishing expansion. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

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